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This reference material is an addendum to the School Management Committee Resource Handbook. This addendum introduces three important reference materials: Child Labour, Governance and Leadership. Child labour is captured under Section 2 (Access and participation) of the training manual. Leadership and governance is captured under section 3 (management efficiency). This addendum seeks to provide information to trainers/facilitators using the updated SMC Training Manual.

Implementation Study "Studies of Value Chains": The present study was carried out in 17 Guarani communities of four captaincies of the Chaco region. Through surveys of producers, housewives and leaders, collected data to analyze the value chains of crops destined for trade, which are corn, beans and peanuts and from raising poultry. Testimonials were also collected on school attendance and the grade incidence of child labor.

This SMC Training Manual seeks to provide basic guide for the training of School Management Committees. It seeks to help facilitators and SMCs understand what is already in the SMC Resource Manual. This Training Manual particularly focuses on issues of Child Labor and Education and has therefore expanded on topics under Child Rights in the Resource Manual. This is as a result of the greater recognition that the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service and its development partners give to the issue of child labor and education. Contributions for this publication were provided by the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) (with sponsorship from ActionAid and Big Lottery Fund) and the ILO-IPEC’s project RAF/10/54/USA, funded by the United States Department of Labor.

This report outlines some of the key challenges behinds ECOWAS' efforts to address child labor in West Africa, as well as provides recommendations based on research findings on how ECOWAS can more effectively address issues of child labor.

This report summarizes the in-depth discussion with the CLU staff and Labour Department Management on the CLU?s current capacity for coordinating the implementation of the Ghana NPA on child labor.

In view of the need to build capacity of all relevant and key partners of the ILO-CCP/PPP project on Community Action Plans (CAPs), a needs assessment of the community level and district level partners was conducted by ICI in collaboration with ILO.

This document describes a workshop held for journalists and communicators to establish strong relations with the media by using strategies such as training and sensitization of journalists with the aim of increasing media coverage of child labor activities, including issues related to trafficking. The capacity building workshop aimed to build the capacity of journalists to fight against child trafficking and child labor by improving their knowledge in order to ensure wide dissemination of awareness messages.

A summary of the contents of a capacity building workshop that aimed to build the capacity of journalists to fight against child trafficking and child labor by improving their knowledge of these phenomena and providing tips on how to ensure wide dissemination of awareness messages.

This document provides a summary of a capacity-building workshop that was held for decision-makers organized to meet the objectives of the project for the elimination of the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) in West Africa and the strengthening of sub-regional cooperation through ECOWAS (ECOWAS) which aims to contribute through national and sub-regional initiatives to address the worst forms of child labor in West Africa. This workshop sought to engage in the recommendation related to national budgeting processes so that the staffing strength and resources of the child labor unit are increased in line with the management structure proposed under the BANG. Of note, the "Liste de présence" in the document has been removed for privacy purposes. 

As part of the process to conduct an impact evaluation on the Ñaupaqman Puriy Kereimba: Combating Exploitive Child Labor (ÑPK) project in Bolivia, this summary describes the approach that was taken in the research design for the ÑPK impact evaluation.